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>> look, the election is going to occur in 2014. in the meantime, i've got my hands full trying to deal with all of the issues that we've been discussing here this morning. we'll worry about the election in 2014. >> all right.
>> look, the election is going to occur in 2014. in the meantime, i've got my hands full trying to deal with all of the issues that we've been discussing here this morning. we'll worry about the election in 2014. >> all right.
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as mark indicated, they elect a republican house, and that is why everything is in a stalemate. >> look at the new congress and house speaker john boehner's problem. >> for those of you who are returning to have what these aisles before, maybe it is time we get a little awestruck. put simply, we're center not to be something but to do something. >> not to be something but to do something. that's a great idea. were they listeng? house speaker john boehner reelected with 220 votes out of 426. pelosi got 192. he has been taking a wicked beating from republicans. we showed chris christie yelling at him that was because of the vote on reliefer hurricane sandy. he is taking a beating. >> becse 's trying to do something. he tried to do something in december with his plan b and his party walked on him. he then abdicated his responsibility and lifted up to the senate to act. the senate gave him a proposal and it turned out of his caucus would not support him on doing something about that either. that he has just tried. part -- his party will not let him. >> he is a deal maker. >> paul krugman te
as mark indicated, they elect a republican house, and that is why everything is in a stalemate. >> look at the new congress and house speaker john boehner's problem. >> for those of you who are returning to have what these aisles before, maybe it is time we get a little awestruck. put simply, we're center not to be something but to do something. >> not to be something but to do something. that's a great idea. were they listeng? house speaker john boehner reelected with 220...
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but the day after the election john boehner has a press conference and he's trying to jump out in front and steal a march on the president. by conceding the idea that the republicans could go for a raise in revenue, $800 billion, ironically the package had less, $600, but he still had to draw the line on raising tax rates. that's where he had to cave and the president got to show some flexibility knowing that boehner was, had no flexibility, ramrod stiff. >> interesting you mentioned the fact that the president is not going to negotiate here but the fact of saying that is a negotiation in itself. it means his opening bid is now zero and he's going to wait and see what -- >> congress has to vote. how does he get around that in >> and the other thing is what we've been discussing these last two months is the easy part. tax cuts. the vote they took penalized only the slightest sliver of americans out there because nobody was talking about keeping the payroll tax cut. now we're talking about spending cuts, taking things away from almost everybody if they do it the way they're told they have
but the day after the election john boehner has a press conference and he's trying to jump out in front and steal a march on the president. by conceding the idea that the republicans could go for a raise in revenue, $800 billion, ironically the package had less, $600, but he still had to draw the line on raising tax rates. that's where he had to cave and the president got to show some flexibility knowing that boehner was, had no flexibility, ramrod stiff. >> interesting you mentioned the...
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five, the popular vote in five of the six last presidential elections. it has been a very bad year for them. and if boehner said they wouldn't negotiate with president obama, and mcconnell saying they're trying to create the brinksmanship that they had in 2011, so if it has not happened yet. why should they be optimistic it will happen soon. >> well, you can only be cautiously optimistic, because so many of the forces will continue. the primary challenges, the people are in homogenus echo chambers, they wouldn't listen, they don't want to have everything blow up in their faces. and with a business community that was absent without leave when this debacle occurred in 2011, or a portion of it, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the republican party, we may see some differences. there are areas you can find common ground now that barack obama is no longer going to be a one-term president. but it is going to take another couple of election defeats i think, before you get some serious change. and we'll see what happens in this mid-term coming up. >> let me ask y
five, the popular vote in five of the six last presidential elections. it has been a very bad year for them. and if boehner said they wouldn't negotiate with president obama, and mcconnell saying they're trying to create the brinksmanship that they had in 2011, so if it has not happened yet. why should they be optimistic it will happen soon. >> well, you can only be cautiously optimistic, because so many of the forces will continue. the primary challenges, the people are in homogenus echo...
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. >> boehner by the way had an election as to whether or not he is going to be returned and he was return and i think the difference was two votes. but secondly, let's get the calendar straight. boehner said you can go home. it is tuesday. and then he called them back to be back on friday. now, what day was tuesday? when was new years day? >> tuesday. >> tuesday. >> they were in session on tuesday and he says why don't you go home and have your family and then he left open calling them back and he called them back on friday. >> the fundamental point, john, there were $17 billion in this bill for community grants and all these other things, newt gingrich this morning said on tv, two-thirds of the money is going to be spend two years from now or more. it was a stocking stuffer. >> that is misleading. >> they can do this -- >> let mort in. >> the replacement of what has been destroyed is going to take time to build. okay. you can't build it -- >> you can't build in january. >> what can you do in january? >> okay. >> there are bridges, there are roads, there are a lot of houses. it takes time
. >> boehner by the way had an election as to whether or not he is going to be returned and he was return and i think the difference was two votes. but secondly, let's get the calendar straight. boehner said you can go home. it is tuesday. and then he called them back to be back on friday. now, what day was tuesday? when was new years day? >> tuesday. >> tuesday. >> they were in session on tuesday and he says why don't you go home and have your family and then he left...
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state election officials have to offer ten days of early voting. simple stuff in other words people will not have long lines they have plenty of days to vote republicans defeated this pretty much a party line vote. why why this i'm not really sure of their reasoning i can see i couldn't i could take a guess and i think it has something to do with a couple things one i always kind of been curious as to why democrats are always the ones who are on the side of longer and longer voting edges interesting how the ideological party lines break well i think the i think the reason it's we've got the paul weyrich so i don't know if you've got it there you've played it before me before but i think that you know it's probably a symptom of the fact that democratic the way the democratic voting machine war as opposed to the republican side is that democrats often need to you have produced better grassroots get out the vote efforts and get people who otherwise wouldn't be predisposed to go to the polls to get there so they need more time so they can get these peo
state election officials have to offer ten days of early voting. simple stuff in other words people will not have long lines they have plenty of days to vote republicans defeated this pretty much a party line vote. why why this i'm not really sure of their reasoning i can see i couldn't i could take a guess and i think it has something to do with a couple things one i always kind of been curious as to why democrats are always the ones who are on the side of longer and longer voting edges...
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five, the popular vote in five of the six last presidential elections. it has been a very bad year for them. and if boehner said they wouldn't negotiate with president obama, and mcconnell saying they're trying to create the brinksmanship that they had in 2011, so if it has not happened yet. why should they be optimistic it will happen soon. >> well, you can only be cautiously optimistic, because so many of the forces will continue. the primary challenges, the people are in homogenus echo chambers, they wouldn't listen, they don't want to have everything blow up in their faces. and with a business community that was absent without leave when this debacle occurred in 2011, or a portion of it, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the republican party, we may see some differences. there are areas you can find common ground now that barack obama is no longer going to be a one-term president. but it is going to take another couple of election defeats i think, before you get some serious change. and we'll see what happens in this mid-term coming up. >> let me ask y
five, the popular vote in five of the six last presidential elections. it has been a very bad year for them. and if boehner said they wouldn't negotiate with president obama, and mcconnell saying they're trying to create the brinksmanship that they had in 2011, so if it has not happened yet. why should they be optimistic it will happen soon. >> well, you can only be cautiously optimistic, because so many of the forces will continue. the primary challenges, the people are in homogenus echo...
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leveraging the elections quite candidly. owning oculus. so you know it's just there it is seriously here it's pretty clear and it's only republican governors who are pushing to say no to early but it is not a republican legislators. to look at the context this place in the context of of trying to frustrate get out the vote operation trying to frustrate voter registration or frustrate same day voter registration trying to frustrate every effort to get as many people to vote as possible to just take issue with my friend here in this situation for democrats is we represent working folks and working folks need to get off the job to go vote you know this whole thing of tuesday as election year is kind of crazy. and to make it a national holiday working people at seven am. are either getting their kids to school this is this is a fairly absurd argument this is i mean. actually the most his argument has been made at all that we don't have a book we're going to we're going to leave it vince you have in the last year more on to more of tonight's bi
leveraging the elections quite candidly. owning oculus. so you know it's just there it is seriously here it's pretty clear and it's only republican governors who are pushing to say no to early but it is not a republican legislators. to look at the context this place in the context of of trying to frustrate get out the vote operation trying to frustrate voter registration or frustrate same day voter registration trying to frustrate every effort to get as many people to vote as possible to just...
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average american wants when it comes to comprehensive common sense gun laws and the disconnect with the elected officials who aren't doing that right now. that's really how we're moving forward with this thing. >> cenk: so were specific proposals discussed and if so, what were they? >> there were a punch of specific proposals not just legislative proposal but executive decisions that can be made, as well as trying to change the culture and behavior of gun violence in america. he likened it to automobile accidents and drinking and driving over decades of regulatory policies and changing the culture of drinking and driving and wearing seat belts we have reduced accidents and deaths. he wants to bring that understanding and approach to the gun advo advocacy. background checks and limiting magazines, we've heard that, so to have that to go with it is great. >> you'll occupy that seat tomorrow i presume are going to be people from the rifle association and differing opinions to gun control than you. how do you feel about the fact that they're going to be hearing from them as well and maybe even gett
average american wants when it comes to comprehensive common sense gun laws and the disconnect with the elected officials who aren't doing that right now. that's really how we're moving forward with this thing. >> cenk: so were specific proposals discussed and if so, what were they? >> there were a punch of specific proposals not just legislative proposal but executive decisions that can be made, as well as trying to change the culture and behavior of gun violence in america. he...
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>> look, the election is going to occur in 2014. in the meantime, i've got my hands full trying to deal with all of the issues that we've been discussing here this morning. we'll worry about the election in 2014. >> all right. leader mcconnell, thank you very much as always. >> thank you. >>> coming up here, the two men in washington who have studied the debt and the country's fiscal problems and actually came up with a plan to fix them. former senate alan simpson and erskine bowles. they were the co-chairs of the president's commission. they think washington missed a big opportunity with the fiscal cliff. so where do we go from here? i will ask them. >>> plus, reaction from our roundtable about the politics of this past week. who were the winners, the losers? joining me, freshman independent senator from maine angus king. former speaker newt gingrich. chair of the house democratic caucus, congressman xavier becerra. former head of hp carly fiorina. plus, ej dionne. it's all coming up. >>> "meet >>> coming up, with all the numbers b
>> look, the election is going to occur in 2014. in the meantime, i've got my hands full trying to deal with all of the issues that we've been discussing here this morning. we'll worry about the election in 2014. >> all right. leader mcconnell, thank you very much as always. >> thank you. >>> coming up here, the two men in washington who have studied the debt and the country's fiscal problems and actually came up with a plan to fix them. former senate alan simpson and...
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we postponed at their request once, right before the south korean elections. and there never seems to be a good time to go. in the past, i have postponed visits to north korea at their requests, but i felt at this time because of the humanitarian nature of the trip, the fact that there is an american detainee there, i heard from the son of the detainee, i think it is important we go. it is a brief visit. eric schmidt is going as a private visit, this is not a google visit. and so i hope that the state department is appropriately cautious, but obviously, they have gotten a little bit of concern. but we're going to be fine. >> so one of your goals is to bring home this american citizen who has been detained in north korea, is that right? >> well, our goals are several. the primary mission is humanitarian. we're going to look at the human situation in north korea. the poorest nation in the world. the detainee issue is another one. we're going to try to see the detainee, i think it is going to be difficult to bring him back, because the judicial process there has
we postponed at their request once, right before the south korean elections. and there never seems to be a good time to go. in the past, i have postponed visits to north korea at their requests, but i felt at this time because of the humanitarian nature of the trip, the fact that there is an american detainee there, i heard from the son of the detainee, i think it is important we go. it is a brief visit. eric schmidt is going as a private visit, this is not a google visit. and so i hope that...
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the message of the election is the brutal early and the effect is. i may become much or as a during my two and a half years in washington, but i see this as a way of until the crater since someone does have an ability if the american people get so sick of it and someone takes the chance to breaks away from the genius consultant to make so much money off of this process is then going to do it differently and we get back to the positive campaign to see if it works. i just don't see a lot of area of optimism. [applause] >> i wouldn't hold my breath for that one. but just to close it out with a slightly different perspective, i covered bill clinton and the hatred was heading towards him as early as his first campaign in 1974 when he ran for congress in northwest arkansas and was criticized in the pulpits of fair comment, the in, that level of future hall, has only increased 20 fold over the course of the years and even that technology in itself is mutual, the way things can be spread now by relief to millions of people of misinformation only intensifies
the message of the election is the brutal early and the effect is. i may become much or as a during my two and a half years in washington, but i see this as a way of until the crater since someone does have an ability if the american people get so sick of it and someone takes the chance to breaks away from the genius consultant to make so much money off of this process is then going to do it differently and we get back to the positive campaign to see if it works. i just don't see a lot of area...
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what they need to do is win some elections. >> bill, who has the leverage here? >> the reelected president whose party controls one of the two houses of congress has more leverage. he won on taxes and got most of that he campaigned for in terms of tax increases on the wealthy. i always thought that would happen. he can say he wants to raise taxes more on the wealthy and curbing deductions. and obama this is amazing giving way on the notion that taxes have to go up on the middle class. this is it. ultimately it is bad for liberals who want to expand the welfare state. they said the current level of taxation for everyone below $400,000 is appropriate. they can't raise that now over the next two or four years. they can try to run trillion dollars deficits over the next years and hope the fed can keep financing them that was a hidden victory in the fiscal cliff deal. going forward republicans need to think hard about what they want to ask for on the debt deal negotiations and it shouldn't just be spending cuts. ask for progrowth when h measu. we are not going to have
what they need to do is win some elections. >> bill, who has the leverage here? >> the reelected president whose party controls one of the two houses of congress has more leverage. he won on taxes and got most of that he campaigned for in terms of tax increases on the wealthy. i always thought that would happen. he can say he wants to raise taxes more on the wealthy and curbing deductions. and obama this is amazing giving way on the notion that taxes have to go up on the middle...
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and midterm elections tend to have low voter turnout and so when there's a lot of contrast good things going to happen or bad things can happen but things will happen when there's not a lot of contrast pretty much the status quo stays if the filibuster's reform this is my take on this some love to get your thoughts or if the filibuster is reformed then the democrats in the senate even though their legislation won't be mass matched in the house and it won't be made into law the democrats in the senate can pass a whole pile a really good laws on the american people will see it absolutely and on the other end of the filibuster is not reformed then it'll always be it looks like for the next two years it was all republican absentee vote and let me just say two things first about the american legislative exchange council common cause last year found that there was a provision in the i.r.s. code to have a whistleblower complaint for tax fraud and we discovered that this organization the american legislative exchange council alec for forty some years founded by paul wire act and henry hyde has
and midterm elections tend to have low voter turnout and so when there's a lot of contrast good things going to happen or bad things can happen but things will happen when there's not a lot of contrast pretty much the status quo stays if the filibuster's reform this is my take on this some love to get your thoughts or if the filibuster is reformed then the democrats in the senate even though their legislation won't be mass matched in the house and it won't be made into law the democrats in the...
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they're not worried about their general election. they're worried about primary battles and increasingly, too. they're concerned with having a national tea party activist base where they can fund raise from. we see people like the representative fund raising off the fact that boehner and the establishment republicans are against him and he's a thorn in their side. >> dana, when you look at the tea party's record unpopularity, it's broke records now. 49% have unfavorable view. 56% have become less influential over the last year. as they sink in popularity, what happens to the gop? do you start seeing defections in the northeastern republican? will there be some awakening in the southern stronghold of the republicans right? i mean, how is this going to work itself out. >> well, it looks, reverend, as if it's going to get worse before it's going to get any better. this was the source of the revival of the republican party as in making the south solidly republican. bup now we're seeing the consequences to this. and that is that the north
they're not worried about their general election. they're worried about primary battles and increasingly, too. they're concerned with having a national tea party activist base where they can fund raise from. we see people like the representative fund raising off the fact that boehner and the establishment republicans are against him and he's a thorn in their side. >> dana, when you look at the tea party's record unpopularity, it's broke records now. 49% have unfavorable view. 56% have...
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it's an obligationed based on the nature of the electorate that re-elected barack obama. i think that's job one. >> john: well, latino voters put this president in office twice and he promised repeatedly that it would be top of his agenda. do you think he'll follow through with his promise and push through legislation this month and what kind of reform he'll consider since he has made the dream act law already. >> i think he'll formalize that and put in place the mechanism by which the dream act is a stepping stone to comprehensive reform. pardon me. >> john: go ahead, please. >> whether or not he has time much more than that, i don't know. but once he gets a system in place, and it's operating and you know, thousands and thousands of people come out of the shadows, it will be very hard caring what happened last fall to roll anything back. >> john: let me ask you about his nominees. they'll throw as much mud at chuck hagel for the unspeakable crime of being of the about the iraq war, do you think they'll slow down the process trying to bog it down or will they see john ke
it's an obligationed based on the nature of the electorate that re-elected barack obama. i think that's job one. >> john: well, latino voters put this president in office twice and he promised repeatedly that it would be top of his agenda. do you think he'll follow through with his promise and push through legislation this month and what kind of reform he'll consider since he has made the dream act law already. >> i think he'll formalize that and put in place the mechanism by which...
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one is that john boehner won re-election today. he was able to win even though there is a part of his caucus that is very much to the right, very conservative, and another part of his caucus, 85 members of the house republican conference voted to support the senate fiscal cliff deal. things are polarized, i'm not going to argue that. but the point is 85 republicans did vote for a deal, did vote for something that was bipartisan. does that mean everything is going to be perfect moving ahead? of course not. >> robert, costa's glass is half full, main is half empty. ezra, is your half full or empty. >> i don't have any water in my glass at all. if this fiscal cliff deal is success, that is not a good way to govern. it's not how to run a rail road. >> gentlemen, thank you for being here. >> thank you. >>> up next, a special farewell to members of congress we won't miss. and one or two we will in the "sideshow." if you want to follow me on twitter, you just need to figure out how to spell smerconish. this is "hardball," the place for po
one is that john boehner won re-election today. he was able to win even though there is a part of his caucus that is very much to the right, very conservative, and another part of his caucus, 85 members of the house republican conference voted to support the senate fiscal cliff deal. things are polarized, i'm not going to argue that. but the point is 85 republicans did vote for a deal, did vote for something that was bipartisan. does that mean everything is going to be perfect moving ahead? of...
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>> guest: the great thing about the election we just went through, we saw hundreds of thousands of grass roots activist in texas and the nation stand up against a mountain of money and attacks. we were not supposed to win this race. i feel like i am coming in surrounded up and lifted up by the grass roots conseshatives that i am happy to stand with. >> john: mitch mcmcconnell gosterning requires compromise with a senate and president that got elected. it is one thing to criticize wash quash and you get here you have to govern. >> guest: i think the fiscal cliff deal was a lousy but moving forward with the debt ceiling and those who believe in limited spending and solvinglet debt and not bankrupting our kids have the advantage. if we insist on structural reforms to fix the problems and number two pro growth policiless so we can grow the economy and get jobs and people back to work. we can win that debate and argument. i don't think what washington needs is it more compromise it needs more common sense and principle. >> john: senator cruz, it is good to get to know you and good luck. >> gu
>> guest: the great thing about the election we just went through, we saw hundreds of thousands of grass roots activist in texas and the nation stand up against a mountain of money and attacks. we were not supposed to win this race. i feel like i am coming in surrounded up and lifted up by the grass roots conseshatives that i am happy to stand with. >> john: mitch mcmcconnell gosterning requires compromise with a senate and president that got elected. it is one thing to criticize...
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in the last election too. i mean, it's not just this year. sharon engel comes to mind in colorado. so it's not necessarily the past year. but there are also -- but you had ted cruise as well. hee won. so there's both sides of this. >> it's also quite clear that after the 2010 loss, the president set out to change the political narrative. the one that had been so successful for the republicans and the tea party in the midterm elections. and he largely succeeded in doing that while pushing progressive values and attacking mitt romney. and also attacking the essence of the tea party ideology. whether it was what they wanted to do with medicare or taxes. and he's kind of won the argument overall. now, it's not a 70/30 split. he won the election by, you know, by four or five points, whatever it was. so it's still a country that's narrowly divided somewhat on these big issues. he has the impetus. the tea party has caused an operational split if not an ideological split. john boehner to date has not shown himself to
in the last election too. i mean, it's not just this year. sharon engel comes to mind in colorado. so it's not necessarily the past year. but there are also -- but you had ted cruise as well. hee won. so there's both sides of this. >> it's also quite clear that after the 2010 loss, the president set out to change the political narrative. the one that had been so successful for the republicans and the tea party in the midterm elections. and he largely succeeded in doing that while pushing...
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house speaker john boehner squeaked out re-election. boehner retained his position as speaker of the house but it wasn't pretty. boehner got only a few more votes than he needed. there wasn't a coup but there were ten protest votes, which by house standards is actually a lot. here are some of those dissenting votes. >> bridenstine. >> eric cantor. >> cantor. allen west of florida. gohmert. >> former congressman allen west of florida. >> allen west of florida. yoho. >> eric cantor. >> cantor. >> you don't have to be a member of the house to be elected speaker, but votes for former congressman allen west pretty much are far out, don't you think? here's congressman louis gohmert's explanation. >> we cannot be about business as usual, and that's what my vote was. it was a statement we can't be about business as usual. >> congresswoman michele bachmann of minnesota introduced the first bill to repeal obama care in its entirety. in other words, republicans wasted no time getting the circus going again. but at least there were fewer of them. i
house speaker john boehner squeaked out re-election. boehner retained his position as speaker of the house but it wasn't pretty. boehner got only a few more votes than he needed. there wasn't a coup but there were ten protest votes, which by house standards is actually a lot. here are some of those dissenting votes. >> bridenstine. >> eric cantor. >> cantor. allen west of florida. gohmert. >> former congressman allen west of florida. >> allen west of florida. yoho....
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what they've learned election after election on the national stage is that's not true. they are not able to embrace that reality and change course and nothing's going to change the course of the house in that regard until those districts get redrawn into competitive districts. >> part of me just wants to be a soothe sayer to the republicans who are leaning towards moderation and say be free from fear. let them be crazy. you don't have to be like that. then you hear news mitch mcconnell, parts of the party, outside groups, we're going to primary you, mitch mcconnell, you made a deal on the fiscal cliff. jonathan, what are these erstwhile moderate republicans to do? >> run in fear, which is what they've been doing. if you're mitch mcconnell coming up for reelection in 2014 and you have seen more than one of your fellow senators and some folks in the house go down in defeat, not in a general election, but in a primary, people have been sitting on capitol hill for years, go down in a primary because they weren't conservative enough and have a 100-plus rating by the conserva
what they've learned election after election on the national stage is that's not true. they are not able to embrace that reality and change course and nothing's going to change the course of the house in that regard until those districts get redrawn into competitive districts. >> part of me just wants to be a soothe sayer to the republicans who are leaning towards moderation and say be free from fear. let them be crazy. you don't have to be like that. then you hear news mitch mcconnell,...
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there would have to be a special election. but then, john kerry didn't resign his senate seat, because 60 thousand people, or maybe we just should call them 60,000 recorded votes went the wrong way in 2004. and then the democrats were stuck with this law when ted kennedy got sick, very sick. when senator kennedy slipped into his final days in the senate, the massachusetts legislature rewrote the law again, because now they had a democratic governor. they thought it would look wicked bad if they just switched back to the way it was so they kept the special election. but they allowed the governor to appoint a temporary successor to senator kennedy's seat to fill the time it would take to have a special election. they actually figured that the governor would appoint someone who would then run for election and have the advantage of being an incumbent. but in fact that gave us the brief and honorable service of paul kirk, a former chairman of the national democratic party and a friend of kennedy. who was supposed to pass a key vote
there would have to be a special election. but then, john kerry didn't resign his senate seat, because 60 thousand people, or maybe we just should call them 60,000 recorded votes went the wrong way in 2004. and then the democrats were stuck with this law when ted kennedy got sick, very sick. when senator kennedy slipped into his final days in the senate, the massachusetts legislature rewrote the law again, because now they had a democratic governor. they thought it would look wicked bad if they...
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a real window of opportunity post the election and the opportunity out of hispanics in this election which was quite decisive i think in the result. >> janet, thank you so much for joining us. when we come back, we will talk to some folks at the table about exactly the moment of opportunity that you have suggested there. we have got a congresswoman from arizona at the table, and we will talk about the fact that arizona has been ground zero for immigration reform and what can that mean now for the 113th "king kong." co ng congr es s a dry cleaner, we replaced people with a m.ac. what? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it? hello? hello?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello? ally bank. your money needs an ally. to treat your anti-aging concerns? join the counter revolution and switch to olay pro-x. achieve anti-aging results so you look up to 12 years younger. see results in 28 days. guaranteed or your money back. olay pro-x. maybe you want to incorporate a business. or protect your family with a will or living trust. and you'd lik
a real window of opportunity post the election and the opportunity out of hispanics in this election which was quite decisive i think in the result. >> janet, thank you so much for joining us. when we come back, we will talk to some folks at the table about exactly the moment of opportunity that you have suggested there. we have got a congresswoman from arizona at the table, and we will talk about the fact that arizona has been ground zero for immigration reform and what can that mean now...
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election is organized. >>> back to politics now. in december it looked like the fiscal cliff battle would be fought between president obama and house speaker john boehner, but as it turned out the white house had a better chance to make a deal with the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell from kentucky. james carroll is a washington reporter for "the louisville courier journal." happy new year, sir. >> happy new year to you. >> the president couldn't make the fiscal cliff deal ask could be the new way the way things are done in d.c. that realization they lead to a more formalized process to begin bipartisan negotiations in the senate to put pressure on the house. given this new dawn of bipartisanship that has spanned a week or so now, has senator mcconnell's role as a power broker, has it been enhanced? >> i think it has been enhanced. you know, just a quick back story on this, he originally, mcconnell said he would not play the lead role in the negotiations over this fiscal cliff, but in the end he's the guy that ended up picking
election is organized. >>> back to politics now. in december it looked like the fiscal cliff battle would be fought between president obama and house speaker john boehner, but as it turned out the white house had a better chance to make a deal with the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell from kentucky. james carroll is a washington reporter for "the louisville courier journal." happy new year, sir. >> happy new year to you. >> the president couldn't make the...
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almost every elected official, asian-american elected official in washington is asian-american. from california we have judy chu and recently elected congressman mark takano. >> he says it's shocking that asian-americans are hardworking and they vote for liberals. what is shocking? >> we vote for liberals because we are liberal. we believe in the democratic philosophy. and, yes, there are some asian-americans that are republicans, but, you know, many of them i would venture to say are republicans because it was a democrat who put us in internment camps during the second world war, and also dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki. but the majority of asian-americans are democrats. and we are very liberal, because the democratic philosophy is one that is better for asian-americans. >> and bill o'reilly denies that there was any national racism after world war ii. you experienced that in your life, have you not? >> we were in prison camps, barbed wire fence, century towers, machine guns pointed at us, searchlights following us at night when we made the night run to the la
almost every elected official, asian-american elected official in washington is asian-american. from california we have judy chu and recently elected congressman mark takano. >> he says it's shocking that asian-americans are hardworking and they vote for liberals. what is shocking? >> we vote for liberals because we are liberal. we believe in the democratic philosophy. and, yes, there are some asian-americans that are republicans, but, you know, many of them i would venture to say...
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almost every elected official, asian-american elected official in washington is asian-american. from california we have judy chu. and recently elected congressman mark takano. >> he says it's shocking that asian-americans are hardworking and they vote for liberals. what is shocking? >> we vote for liberals because we are liberal. we believe in the democratic philosophy. and, yes, there are some asian-americans that are republicans, but, you know, many of them i would venture to say are republicans because it was a democrat who put us in internment camps during the second world war, and also dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki. but the majority of asian-americans are democrats. and we are very liberal, because the democratic philosophy is one that is better for asian-americans. >> and bill o'reilly denies that there was any national racism after world war ii. you experienced that in your life, have you not? >> we were in prison camps, barbed wire fence, century towers, machine guns pointed at us, searchlights following us at night when we made the night run to the l
almost every elected official, asian-american elected official in washington is asian-american. from california we have judy chu. and recently elected congressman mark takano. >> he says it's shocking that asian-americans are hardworking and they vote for liberals. what is shocking? >> we vote for liberals because we are liberal. we believe in the democratic philosophy. and, yes, there are some asian-americans that are republicans, but, you know, many of them i would venture to say...
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bush the winner of the 2000 presidential election. it had been one of the hardest fought campaigns in recent memory. texas governor versus the vice-president and when the election results came in the vice-president won the popular vote because florida was too close to call, it went into equivalent of overtime, remember the pregnant, hanging and dip pelled chads and after challenges to the supreme court, 5-4 to halt the recall in florida and bush took florida getting the 25 needed electoral votes and he took the oath of office and lawmakers recognizing george w. bush 12 years ago. and is his parents' 68th wedding anniversary, they're now the longest married presidential couple in history. they met at a christmas dance in connecticut in 1941, married four years later and mr. bush, wearing his officer's uniform. he was 21 and on leave from active duty in world war ii as a navy pilot. mrs. bush was 20 and her groom was the first boy she'd ever kissed. president bush is still in a houston hospital for related cough and he's in a regular th
bush the winner of the 2000 presidential election. it had been one of the hardest fought campaigns in recent memory. texas governor versus the vice-president and when the election results came in the vice-president won the popular vote because florida was too close to call, it went into equivalent of overtime, remember the pregnant, hanging and dip pelled chads and after challenges to the supreme court, 5-4 to halt the recall in florida and bush took florida getting the 25 needed electoral...
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, but i think -- the problem is -- that -- the result is going to be these folks get defeated in an election. i think there's more chance of that than they change their positions or minds. >> jennifer: do you really hate to say it? >> well i would love to see it. but i would like to see a little reasonableness in this town to pass some of this stuff. >> jennifer: that's right. peter fenn thank you so much for coming inside "the war room." >> thanks. >> jennifer: you bet. and up next new state legislatures mean a wave of new state laws some are good and some are bad. we'll talk about that whwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwhwh >> i think it's brilliant. (vo) first, news and analysis with a washington perspective from an emmy winning insider. >> i know this stuff, and i love it. (vo) followed by humor and politics with a west coast edge. bill press and stephanie miller. >> what a way to start the day. [ ryon ] eating shrimp at red lobster is a fantastic experience. 30 shrimp for $11.99. i can't imagine anything better. you're getting a ton of shrimp and it tastes really g
, but i think -- the problem is -- that -- the result is going to be these folks get defeated in an election. i think there's more chance of that than they change their positions or minds. >> jennifer: do you really hate to say it? >> well i would love to see it. but i would like to see a little reasonableness in this town to pass some of this stuff. >> jennifer: that's right. peter fenn thank you so much for coming inside "the war room." >> thanks. >>...
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almost every elected official, asian-american elected official in washington is asian-american. from california we have judy chu and recently elected congressman mark takano. >> he says it's shocking that asian-americans are hardworking and they vote for liberals. what is shocking? >> we vote for liberals because we are liberal. we believe in the democratic philosophy. and, yes, there are some asian-americans that are republicans, but, you know, many of them i would venture to say are republicans because it was a democrat who put us in internment camps during the second world war, and also dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima and nagasaki. but the majority of asian-americans are democrats. and we are very liberal, because the democratic philosophy is one that is better for asian-americans. >> and bill o'reilly denies that there was any national racism after world war ii. you experienced that in your life, have you not? >> we were in prison camps, barbed wire fence, century towers, machine guns pointed at us, searchlights following us at night when we made the night run to the la
almost every elected official, asian-american elected official in washington is asian-american. from california we have judy chu and recently elected congressman mark takano. >> he says it's shocking that asian-americans are hardworking and they vote for liberals. what is shocking? >> we vote for liberals because we are liberal. we believe in the democratic philosophy. and, yes, there are some asian-americans that are republicans, but, you know, many of them i would venture to say...
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were elected by constituents who want them to do what they're doing and so this is more of an ideological message on your part as opposed to calling out the press for supposed bias. >> it could be, but i don't believe it is. we don't do that kind of analysis and -- >> you do it right here. the republicans are extremists, ready calls. >> look at how we back it up. we look at arguments made and there's no truth content to them. it's just stunning what republicans have said and been willing to do that's simply aren't true. not in a little fact checking way, but in broad arguments about what america's about where we've come from, why we have deficit problems now, what government spending does to jobs, and the like. >> howie, i would just add that it's not so much about ideology as it is about tactics as well. so, for example, we have seen in the last four years filibuster used in ways they've never been used throughout history. you can scarcely find a story looking at legislation that failed in the senate with a majority of votes that didn't just say, legislation fails in senate. >> was the s
were elected by constituents who want them to do what they're doing and so this is more of an ideological message on your part as opposed to calling out the press for supposed bias. >> it could be, but i don't believe it is. we don't do that kind of analysis and -- >> you do it right here. the republicans are extremists, ready calls. >> look at how we back it up. we look at arguments made and there's no truth content to them. it's just stunning what republicans have said and...
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. >> woodruff: and to another in our conversations with newly elected members of the u.s. senate. texas republican ted cruz previously served as the state's solicitor general, and also worked in the george w. bush administration. the 42-year-old cruz defeated his democratic challenger by a wide margin in the november election, with strong support from the tea party. he took the seat of republican kay bailey hutchison, who retired. over the weekend, cruz said he would find it "very difficult" to support chuck hagel for defense secretary. cruz charged the former nebraska senator had "advocated weakness" in his foreign policy views. i spoke with him last friday from capitol hill. welcome, senator ted cruz. congratulations. let's start out talking about washington. most americans seem to think this city is dysfunctional. they have a very low opinion of the congress. what do you think the problem is is? what would you do about it? >> well, i think right now we've got a major problem that we're just going broke. we have spending money we don't have. there is a real lack of common sense
. >> woodruff: and to another in our conversations with newly elected members of the u.s. senate. texas republican ted cruz previously served as the state's solicitor general, and also worked in the george w. bush administration. the 42-year-old cruz defeated his democratic challenger by a wide margin in the november election, with strong support from the tea party. he took the seat of republican kay bailey hutchison, who retired. over the weekend, cruz said he would find it "very...
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since the election there has been newtown. and the way they have responded to newtown has been widely derided, even by the political right as just nuts, as ridiculous. "nra loon in bizarre rant over newtown." that was "the new york post," which is not to be confused with something like "mother jones." that's the right. wayne lapierre proposing more guns in school as a solution to gun violence. saying guns are not the problem, hollywood is the problem. hollywood glorifying gun violence, that's the real problem, america. and at the same time that wayne lapierre was blaming hollywood glorifying gun violence for violence in this country, the national rifle association at its headquarters, at its national firearms museum was reupping its exhibit to show how much the nra loves hollywood guns. this is the kind of behavior that might pass muster for some sort of club that exists simply to comfort and entertain its own members in private. this is not the behavior of a political group that expects to be taken seriously in politics, expe
since the election there has been newtown. and the way they have responded to newtown has been widely derided, even by the political right as just nuts, as ridiculous. "nra loon in bizarre rant over newtown." that was "the new york post," which is not to be confused with something like "mother jones." that's the right. wayne lapierre proposing more guns in school as a solution to gun violence. saying guns are not the problem, hollywood is the problem. hollywood...
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first, newly elected ted cruz of texas followed by newly elected democratic senator and nra member heidi heitkamp of north dakota. >> every parent was horrified at what happened there, to see 20 children, 6 adults senselessly murdered. it takes your breath away. but within minutes we saw politicians run out and try to exploit this tragedy, try to push their political agenda of gun control. >> you need to put everything on the table, but what i hear from the administration and if "the washington post" is to be believed, that's way an extreme of what i think is necessary or even should be talked about. and it's not going to pass. >> rebecca, see the problem in this country. you know it. there you have ted cruz, a well-educated right winger like pat robertson. it's like they flush out their high educations when they get out of school for political purposes. talking about this being a political -- it's not anybody's political agenda. the only person who wants to have gun control is somebody who is scared of what the gun has been doing. it's nothing but trouble to be for gun control. you don'
first, newly elected ted cruz of texas followed by newly elected democratic senator and nra member heidi heitkamp of north dakota. >> every parent was horrified at what happened there, to see 20 children, 6 adults senselessly murdered. it takes your breath away. but within minutes we saw politicians run out and try to exploit this tragedy, try to push their political agenda of gun control. >> you need to put everything on the table, but what i hear from the administration and if...